Tottenham star already agrees to leave club in summer 2025 transfer window | OneFootball

It has been a nightmare of a 2024/25 season for Tottenham, who came into the campaign with high hopes after a fifth-placed rebound 2023/24 campaign under first-year Spurs coach Ange Postecoglou, who left the club with significantly more positives than negatives.

Now, though, it has all soured for Postecoglou, and even if Tottenham salvage something out of the season by winning the Europa League, the former Celtic coach is expected to see himself out the door of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at the end of the season.

Postecoglou isn't the only one to blame, nor will he be the only one to suffer the consequence with a Spurs exit. There are a number of players on thin ice as Spurs sit 16th in the Premier League table with a mere handful of matches left in the campaign, and the most prominent of those names is center back Cristian Romero after he pretty much said he's out in an interview on the club's grounds.

Cristian Romero has told Atletico Madrid he wants to join

To make matters worse, it looks like Romero is accelerating his own departure from Tottenham for his dream move to LaLiga and specifically to Atletico Madrid, coached by compatriot Diego Simeone. Relevo's Matteo Moretto reports that Cristian Romero has given his "yes" to Atletico Madrid for a summer 2025 transfer to the Spanish capital.

It remains to be seen if a transfer will actually come to fruition, but, as they say, where there is smoke, there is fire. And there is a whole lot of smoke coming out of Atleti in the transfer rumor mill right now, and it is coming quite quickly.

At 26 years old, Romero is entering his prime and has a good track record of success in both Serie A and the Premier League. Atletico Madrid, moreso than Tottenham and other clubs, can afford the negatives with how aggressively Romero plays, and Simeone actually values that traits a lot, looking at the center backs he has recruited to the club over the years like Diego Godin and Stefan Savic.

Romero is a better fit for Atleti than Tottenham, and Spurs do have January 2025 signing Kevin Danso ready to fill his place. The question is, how much can they sell Romero to Atleti for, especially with Romero so obviously and even publicly interested in a move? Because the fee they get back will dictate the caliber of player they could sign to replace him, with Dean Huijsen and